Edgar Allan Poe - January 19

Nevermore Learning

Sunday, January 19, 2025

Today is Archery Day, National Popcorn Day, and World Quark Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Edgar Allan Poe

ON THIS DATE

  • 1861 - Georgia secedes from the Union.
  • 1915 - Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
  • 1953 - 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.

BIRTHDAYS

SONGS OF THE DAY 

  • Janis Joplin - Me and Bobby McGee - LISTEN
  • Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You - LISTEN
  • Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible - LISTEN

THEME:  Edgar Allan Poe

  • Grade 6-8 - Read Write Think - Detected Listening-Thinking Activity - The Tell-Tale Heart - DO
  • Grade 6-8 - Read Write Think - Modeling Reading and Analysis Processes with the Works of Edgar Allan Poe  Unit - DO
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - Mash-up: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" (8:12) - VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - The Five Biggest Myths About Poe (2:05) - VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - American Masters - The Deaths of the Women in Poe's Life (1:52) - VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive "The Raven"  (3:55) - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive - "The Telltale Heart" (3:05) - VIEW, READ, DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive - Art of the Short Story (4:07)  - VIEW
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive - Lord Byron, Poe, and Poetry (5:18)  - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive - Gothic Tales (2:37) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - American Masters - Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive - Fake News and Biography(2:30) - VIEW and DO
  • Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Elements of Style in Poe (4:44) - VIEW, and DO
  • Grades 7-12 - Annenberg Learner - American Passages: A Literary Survey - Gothic Undercurrents (28:23) -VIEW and DO
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - It's Lit: Why Edgar Allan Poe Isn't Just a Sad Boy (11:03) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video -  Direct Connection - Edgar Allan Poe (25:31) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Expressions - The Cask of Amontillado (9:09) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Expressions - The Tell-Tale Heart (8:42) - VIEW
  • Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Madness (30:01) - VIEW

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